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    Gone With The Wind Returns to Theaters For It's 85th Anniversary



    Works of literature and art are, more often than not, products of the time period within which their creators live. To modern minds, some of these works could be seen as insensitive and controversial, and none fits this bill quite like Gone With the Wind. Considered one of the greatest films of all time, Gone With the Wind is the winner of eight Academy Awards - plus two special achievement Oscars - and is coming back to theaters for its 85th anniversary courtesy of Warner Bros. and Fathom Events. The classic will return to theaters nationwide for three days only, screening on Sunday, April 7, and Monday, April 8, before a final run on Wednesday, April 10


    .https://collider.com/gone-with-the-wind-screenings-85th-anniversary/

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    How many wokesters will be triggered?

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    Quote Originally Posted by NoisyBoy View Post
    How many wokesters will be triggered?
    I'd say quite a few!

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    Excellent movie but two English actors played prominent roles. WTF was that about. I liked the book.

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    Imagine, if you will,

    The number of entertainment warnings, censoring and graphic censure interruptions.

    After screening, all new social meaning and understanding of the film will be the dominant discussion.
    "I've outlived the country I loved" Monte Walsh 1970

    "Remember: On the other side of that screen is a real person" (Missouri Mule)

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    Quote Originally Posted by stephenpe View Post
    Excellent movie but two English actors played prominent roles. WTF was that about. I liked the book.
    The South is rich in English ancestry . Maybe that’s what they were going for….I dunno.

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    I watched it in re-release when I was a kid in the '60s. I don't remember being all that impressed with it as a film, but I was a kid - what impressed me then is no doubt very different from what I'd be impressed by today. Why critics rate it so highly - I'd have to read what the critics have written about it to know that, and I have better things to do. It might have had something to do with the battle scenes, the dying Confederate soldiers and the burning of Atlanta. Innovative, even over-the-top depictions of violence often get the attention of critics, as with the Godfather movies. It may have had something to do with the fact that people, even critics, like to watch pretty people, and Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable were. (Errol Flynn and Bette Davis were almost cast, but sanity prevailed.) As for the controversy about the movie glorifying the Confederacy - yeah, it does. I personally think it's silly to either ignore that, or to be upset about someone showing or watching it for that reason.
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    Quote Originally Posted by stephenpe View Post
    Excellent movie but two English actors played prominent roles. WTF was that about. I liked the book.
    English, Australian and Irish actors are literally everywhere in films and TV, playing Americans. I thought it was funny, in a turnabout sort of way, when they cast John Lithgow to play Winston Churchill in 'The Crown', and then had Gillian Anderson play Margaret Thatcher.
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    I shutter to think of what a remake of the film would look like.

    Denzel Washington plays the role of Rhett Butler
    Scarlett O"Hara is portrayed as a lesbian
    Mammy is a transgendered white guy.
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    Quote Originally Posted by OLD GUY IN FLORIDA View Post
    I shutter to think of what a remake of the film would look like.

    Denzel Washington plays the role of Rhett Butler
    Scarlett O"Hara is portrayed as a lesbian
    Mammy is a transgendered white guy.
    It would be a documentary about the waste of money and the unrecoverable high cost of wind turbines, and the economic and environmental disaster they produce.
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